On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Eric Fort <[email protected]> wrote: > http://debian.beagleboard.org/images/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz > - 470MB > and > > https://rcn-ee.net/deb/flasher/wheezy/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-15-2gb.img.xz > - 153MB > are indeed different. > > could the naming convention used in each place be differentiated so one > knows what they are getting? I.E. > BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-YYYY-MM-DD-size-type.img.xz with type being > descriptive such as bare, netinst, console, GNOME, KDE, BLOAT, MORE-BLOAT, > BIGGER-BLOAT, kitchen-sink, every-existing-debian-package-preinstalled, and > somewhere in there "will-no-longer-fit"! Might the smaller images be also > made available / linked to on beagleboard.org?
Sure, I can rename them "lxde" and "console". One of the issues for me on getting them on beagleboard.org. TI/beagle people like to verify it, so they take a day or two. The images on rcn-ee.net are merely monthly snapshots, i do boot test them, but if we find an issue, it usually has to wait till the next month. (although it's been pretty regression free as of late) > The images offered on > beagleboard.org may make a good 5 minute demo but they are so stuffed > that after doing apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on a new image one is > left with somewhere in the 10-20MB range. try to install anything for real > work like lm-sensors & i2c tools and you end up with no space left on i2c tools should be installed by default. ;) > device. forget about even thinking about installing what you need to play > mp3 or video files. The smaller images really are needed, and adding a type > field to the naming would be really helpful, as well as letting people know > where images can be had of the type needed for their use. Those working > mostly over serial and ssh really don't get much benefit from the graphical > desktop and all the software it requires, thus a smaller image is extremely > useful. Another thing, we could start purging the "man" pages and other things under /usr/share/ but those built-in stuff is one of the nice things about debian. and if you don't use chromium, that's 100Mb right there. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
